Embroidering robots, robotizing embroideries
Soft Matters PhD projects explore individual topics but can also be embedded in larger research frameworks. In any case, the PhD projects are prepared in Ensadlab through the SACRe doctoral programme associated with the doctoral school ED540, PSL University. These research are funded either by academic or private sources, notably through PSL, ANR or CIFRE programmes and regularly involve both academic and industry partners. Click on each picture to get further details about these PhD projects.
Cinerimorphosis: design po(i)etics and matter narratives
Designing sensitive states of matter: an anthropology of transmittable skills
Behaving Knit: design-led integration of soft actuators through knit structure programming
[ Y ] : une autre approche de l’architecture des arbres.
Converging Design: Symbiotic bricologies
Couleur latente. Le développement de textiles aux états de surface évolutifs par l’intégration des réactions des couleurs d’origine naturelle à la lumière au sein de la conception en design (2026)
No Cuts No Seams: Textile-inherent potentials for designing and weaving seamless garments & other three-dimensional artefacts (2025)
New fashion materials in the collections of the House of Balenciaga in the 21st century. The need for research through the practice of textile restoration (2023)
Textilising the built memory through architectural rubble’s in situ recycling (2022)
Hair work craft: hair as creative matter for a practice-based & textile design-led research (2022)
Clinique vestimentaire: for a new paradigm of custom-made clothing design (2019)